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1857, January 12th. (Circa). One stranded on Winterton 
beach and killed by the fishermen measured forty-five feet. The 
skidl of this specimen is preserved in the College of Surgeons’ 
Museum. 
1858, November 3rd. One taken off Wainfleet, on the Lincoln- 
shire side the entrance to the Wash, measured thirty-two feet. 
32. Bal.®noptera rostrata (Gray). Pike Whale, Lesser Pin- 
Whale. 
A whale, probably of this species, is mentioned in a note to 
Sir Thomas Browne’s list, as having been cast ashore and killed at 
Eunton, near Cromer, towards the end of 1829. It is described 
as twenty-four feet long, nose very sharp and pointed, nearly black 
on the back and white below in folds. Baleen nearly white. 
In November, 1860, an adult male of this species was stranded 
on Overstrand beach ; it measured twenty-five feet in length. 
The skeleton was presented by Mr. J. H. Gurney to the College of 
Surgeons’ Museum, where it now is, and a full description is 
given by Mr. W. H. Plower in the Proc. Zool. Soc., May 24th, 
1864. Mr. Flower considers thirty feet the maximum length 
this species attains. 
33. Physeter MACROOEPHALUS (Linn). Northern Sperm Whale. 
Sir Thomas Browne says : — “ A Spermaceti whale of sixty-two feet 
long, near Wells ; another of the same kind, twenty years before 
[June, 1626] at Hunstanton ; and not far off eight or nine came 
ashore, and two had young ones after they were forsaken by the 
water {Wilkin’s Edition, vol. 4, p. 326.) I can find no modern 
record of the occurrence of this species on the Norfolk coast. In 
the Norwich Museum are skulls of Delphinus euphrosyne (Gray) 
and D. delphis, both probably obtained on the Norfolk coast, but 
I can find no history of either recorded. Sir Thomas Browne says 
of the latter species : — “ sometimes taken, but many confound it 
with the porpoise.” 
34. Lagenorhynchus albirostris (Gray). White-beaked 
Bottle-nose. 
Captured off Yarmouth in 1845, described, with plate, in Ann. 
and Mag. of Nat. Hist, vol. 17, p. 21. Skull in Norwich 
Museum. 
